Maybe. Butter has lots of saturated fats – nearly 50 percent of the stuff that raises your bad cholesterol. Vegetable oil is the base of margarine. That oil tends have what is known as “hydrogenated” oil, the term used when manufacturers blow hydrogen into the oil which makes trans fat.

But you don’t have to ditch your margarine – the less solid it is, the less likely it has trans fat. The tub varieties are definitely better and less likely to have trans fat, federal health officials say.

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